Plagued The Alt-Right

[Null]

Well considering how lgbt people make a low percent of the world's population.
Really who fucking cares about hgtv.

No one important, but I can't even describe it. Every single time I walk out into the living room and House Hunters or something is on TV, it's anything but straight white. They actively profile minority relationships.

 

[Bgheff]

No one important, but I can't even describe it. Every single time I walk out into the living room and House Hunters or something is on TV, it's anything but straight white. They actively profile minority relationships.

Somones gotta make an audience out of tumblr.

 

[The 25th Cyberman]

The media should reflect reality, not distort it.

Fair point.

 

[AnOminous]

No one important, but I can't even describe it. Every single time I walk out into the living room and House Hunters or something is on TV, it's anything but straight white. They actively profile minority relationships.

Aren't you automatically gay just for watching that in the first place?

 

[Rou]

Aren't you automatically gay just for watching that in the first place?

We're all a little gay here.

 

[muina]

Well the modus operandai of this site is basically internet buttstalking.

 

[MarineTrainedTard]

yeah TBH I was under the impression that HGTV was primarily marketed toward gay people anyway

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

The media should reflect reality, not distort it.

Says who?

 

[Null]

Says who?

Journalistic code of ethics.

"Journalists' main goal is to ensure the right of citizens to truthful and important information, which allows them to form adequate impression about social processes, their essence and importance, about the situation in the modern world."
http://ethicnet.uta.fi/belarus/journalists_ethics_code

Since the printing press this is what's allowed society to shape itself for centuries. The freer information got, the faster change was implemented and the better quality of life got. If the only options most people have for media is controlled by self-invested entities, they're not able to adequately form opinions.

 

[AnOminous]

Journalistic code of ethics.

"Journalists' main goal is to ensure the right of citizens to truthful and important information, which allows them to form adequate impression about social processes, their essence and importance, about the situation in the modern world."
http://ethicnet.uta.fi/belarus/journalists_ethics_code

Having a bunch of gays do how-tos (or whatever they do) on a network that is gay as hell and mainly for gays isn't that distorting.

 

[Null]

Having a bunch of gays do how-tos (or whatever they do) on a network that is gay as hell and mainly for gays isn't that distorting.

Sure it is. It cements the idea that those things are the status quo.

 

[BT 075]

Sure it is. It cements the idea that those things are the status quo.

It's some plot to de-populate the world by making kids who watch it gay.

 

[ZeCommissar]

The media should reflect reality, not distort it.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but interracial couples are a reality.

 

[Null]

Sorry to burst your bubble, but interracial couples are a reality.

I didn't know that 100% of couples were gay, black, or interracial. Thanks for telling me.

 

[ZeCommissar]

I didn't know that 100% of couples were gay, black, or interracial. Thanks for telling me.

You missed my point, also since you made a example of it earlier I have seen the show House Hunters, and I saw more white couples than minorities at that moment.

Your experience and mine are anecdotal at best.

 

[Rin]

I didn't know that 100% of couples were gay, black, or interracial. Thanks for telling me.

I try not to spend too much time watching daytime TV, but I've seen plenty of straight white couples on HGTV, too. Honestly, I think it depends more on what show you're watching - the one about people living in tiny houses seems to be 99% straight white hipster-y couples in their mid-twenties. If anything, I'd guess there're more "non-standard" couples on House Hunters because there are approximately 5 billion episodes of that show, and they think showing less conventional couples makes it more "exotic" or something.

 

[Internet War Criminal]

Sorry to burst your bubble, but interracial couples are a reality.

They are by far the minority. Same with married gay couples. Or trannies. Or married African-Americans for that matter

Doesn't stop the media from pretending they are literally a third of the population at least

 

[supdup]

Journalistic code of ethics.

"Journalists' main goal is to ensure the right of citizens to truthful and important information, which allows them to form adequate impression about social processes, their essence and importance, about the situation in the modern world."
http://ethicnet.uta.fi/belarus/journalists_ethics_code

Since the printing press this is what's allowed society to shape itself for centuries. The freer information got, the faster change was implemented and the better quality of life got. If the only options most people have for media is controlled by self-invested entities, they're not able to adequately form opinions.

That's true, for journalism. HGTV is entertainment, not journalism. Those are two different things. If you're saying all media must conform to the Journalistic Code of Ethics, then fantasy and fiction wouldn't exist.

 

[DuskEngine]

who cares dude getting mad about too many trannies being on the teevee is as autistic as getting mad about the nefarious under-representation of persons of colour by the mainstream media

 

[supdup]

Doesn't stop the media from pretending they are literally a third of the population at least

Can you demonstrate anywhere in the media where this is claimed?

The media should reflect reality, not distort it.

Are you defining "media" as just news and analysis? Or are you using it in the broader sense of TV, Radio, Print and internet? If it's the latter, then no the media shouldn't always reflect reality. There's room for fantasy, fiction and entertainment that is not a precise reflection of reality.